GLENDALE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017

WINNERS OF GIFF 2017

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Levon Sharafyan

BEST IN FESTIVAL

Tangent Room

Feature Film - any genre 1 hour or more
BEST FEATURE FILM - The Bride from Vegas
BEST DIRECTOR - Artur Levonovich Babayan
BEST ACTOR - Mikael Sharafyan
BEST ACTRESS - Charlene Rose

BEST MUSIC - The Fall of the House of Usher, Jay Woelfel

International Feature Film -

any genre 1 hour or more

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM - Million Loves in Me
BEST DIRECTOR - Björn Engström Tangent Room
BEST ACTOR - John Yiu Million Loves in Me
BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS - Koon Lan Law Million Loves in Me
BEST ACTRESS - Vee Vimolmal Tangent Room

BEST MUSIC - Earthquake

Short Film - any genre under 25 minutes

BEST SHORT FILM - Sea Monsters
BEST DIRECTOR - Courtney Miller - Repairations

BEST ACTOR - John Schuck - Tale of the Kite
BEST ACTRESS - April Eckfeld - I’m a Cat

BEST MUSIC- Michael Giacchino, Tale of the Kite

International short Film -

any genre under 25 minutes

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM- Strange Paradise

BEST DIRECTOR - Anselmo Vasconcellos Strange Paradise
BEST ACTOR - Anthony Nikolchev Dead Flowers

BEST ACTRESS- Ana Cláudia Soares

Student Film - any genre any length
BEST STUDENT FILM - Waltz of the Monsters
BEST DIRECTOR- Andy Koeger Rosie, Oh!

BEST ACTOR - Scott Nelson Spaceman

BEST ACTRESS- Zoe Lillian Have a Little Faith

WEB SERIES

BEST WEB SERIES - Lucky Jay 2
BEST DIRECTOR - Harper Philbin Lucky Jay 2

BEST ACTOR - Morlan Higgins Lucky Jay 2

BEST ACTRESS - Andrea Kelley Diary of a Teenage Nobody

BEST SHORT SHORT (under 10 minutes)

I’m a Cat

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY - Crows of the Desert
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY - Seeing is Believing: Women Direct

BEST HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY - We Are Egyptian Armenians

BEST ANIMATION FEATURE - Barkley
BEST ANIMATION SHORT - A Dream of Dolls Dancing
BEST MUSIC VIDEO - Ophelia

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO - God Came ‘Round
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM - Underwater Deep Dive
BEST TRAILER - Autumn Ghost
BEST SCI-FI FANTASY - Tangent Room
BEST HORROR/THRILLER - Occupants

BEST FEMALE FILM MAKER - Carrie Prince, Kinesthesia
BEST FEMALE SCREENWRITER - Julia Camara, Occupants
BEST EDITING - FEATURE FILM - Mojo
BEST EDITING - SHORT FILM - Antecedent

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS FEATURE FILM- Earthquake

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS SHORT FILM - Nano
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - FEATURE FILM - Million Loves In Me
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - SHORT FILM - Headwind

BEST MAKE UP - FEATURE FILM - Million Loves in Me
BEST MAKE UP - SHORT FILM - Kinesthesia

SPECIAL AWARDS -

OPEN TO RESIDENTS OF GLENDALE, CA ONLY
BEST FILM MAKER IN GLENDALE, CA - Gary Karpetyan, Czech Mate on Ice
BEST STUDENT FILM MAKER IN GLENDALE, CA Ashton Avila, Have a Little Faith

SPECIAL AWARDS -

OPEN TO RESIDENTS OF BURBANK, CA ONLY
BEST FILM MAKER IN BURBANK, CA - Antonio Trejo Chavez Mira Protocol
BEST STUDENT FILM MAKER IN BURBANK, CA -

Konstantin Starodetskii Lotone, Two Worlds

SPECIAL AWARDS -

OPEN TO RESIDENTS OF PASADENA, CA ONLY

BEST FILM MAKER IN PASADENA, CA - Michael Fallavollita, tale of the kite
BEST STUDENT FILM MAKER IN PASADENA, CA - Madeline Rozwat, Letters from Alcatraz

Screenplays

FEATURE SCREENPLAY

1st Place Can you Smell the Flowers Malcolm Holt

2nd Place Democracy's Prisoner Gary Wells

3rd Place Hold Me Keith Mallory

4th Place Dragonsong Robert Cox

5th Place Mona Lisa Caper Gina Cress

1st Honorable Mention The Space in Between Lidia Skendieri

2nd Honorable Mention Universal Monster Constantine Nasr

3rd Honorable Mention Beast Dean Whitney

4th Honorable Mention The Door Robert Cox

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of

the Short Screenplay Contest:

SHORT SCREENPLAY

1 st Place The Uber Ride By Diana Woody

2nd Place Lapse By Louis Tovar

3rd Place A Second Husband By Thomas Britt

1st HONORABLE MENTION Major Renovation By Kathy Fleig

2nd HONORABLE MENTION Code 10-66 By Mikayla Myers

3rd HONORABLE MENTION Michelangelo By Robert Lemos

4th HONORABLE MENTION Spiced Apple By Rebecca Lunn

MILLION LOVES IN ME

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Directed by Sampson Yuen, Written By John Yiu

Inspired by a true story and a headline case in Hong Kong, MILLION LOVES IN ME follows the story of a wealthy mother and daughter who suffer from the psychological issues of obsessive- compulsive disorders, and their controversial private lives are exposed to the public through a charge of their animal hoarding behavior by the police. The topic of animal hoarding, to our knowledge, has not been shot into a movie in cinematic history.